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http://www.stanford.edu/

Private, non profit university in Stanford, California, USA for research and undergraduate and graduate studies. Known for its academic strength, wealth, proximity to Silicon Valley, and ranking as one of the world's top universities. Particularly noted for its entrepreneurship and is one of the most successful universities in attracting funding for start-ups.

Proper citation: Stanford University; Stanford; California (RRID:SCR_011538) Copy   

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https://metadatacenter.org

Develops information technologies that make authoring complete metadata more manageable. Its products aim to facilitate using the metadata in further research.Center to improve metadata and its use throughout biomedical sciences. Develops information technologies that make authoring complete metadata more manageable through better interfaces, terminology, metadata practices, and analytics. Optimizes metadata pathway from provider to end user. Provides way for funders to specify what metadata they want to collect as part of research life cycle.

Proper citation: Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval (RRID:SCR_016269) Copy   

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http://sri.com/

Independent, nonprofit research institute conducting client sponsored research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses, foundations, and other organizations. SRI also brings its innovations to the marketplace by licensing its intellectual property and creating new ventures. SRI was founded as Stanford Research Institute in 1946 by a group of West Coast industrialists and Stanford University. SRI formally separated from the University in 1970, and we changed our name to SRI International in 1977.

Proper citation: Stanford Research Institute International (RRID:SCR_004926) Copy   

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http://diabeticfootconsortium.org/

Group of academic institutions committed to studying diabetic foot conditions, such as foot ulcers and wound healing, to develop predictive biomarkers which can be later used to create better treatment plans and improve health and quality of life for people living with diabetes.

Proper citation: Diabetic Foot Consortium (RRID:SCR_018914) Copy   

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http://www.betacell.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented May 10, 2017. A pilot effort that has developed a centralized, web-based biospecimen locator that presents biospecimens collected and stored at participating Arizona hospitals and biospecimen banks, which are available for acquisition and use by researchers. Researchers may use this site to browse, search and request biospecimens to use in qualified studies. The development of the ABL was guided by the Arizona Biospecimen Consortium (ABC), a consortium of hospitals and medical centers in the Phoenix area, and is now being piloted by this Consortium under the direction of ABRC. You may browse by type (cells, fluid, molecular, tissue) or disease. Common data elements decided by the ABC Standards Committee, based on data elements on the National Cancer Institute''s (NCI''s) Common Biorepository Model (CBM), are displayed. These describe the minimum set of data elements that the NCI determined were most important for a researcher to see about a biospecimen. The ABL currently does not display information on whether or not clinical data is available to accompany the biospecimens. However, a requester has the ability to solicit clinical data in the request. Once a request is approved, the biospecimen provider will contact the requester to discuss the request (and the requester''s questions) before finalizing the invoice and shipment. The ABL is available to the public to browse. In order to request biospecimens from the ABL, the researcher will be required to submit the requested required information. Upon submission of the information, shipment of the requested biospecimen(s) will be dependent on the scientific and institutional review approval. Account required. Registration is open to everyone., documented on August 1, 2015. Consortium that aims to facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations to advance the understanding of pancreatic islet development and function, with the goal of developing innovative therapies to correct the loss of beta cell mass in diabetes, including cell reprogramming, regeneration and replacement. They are responsible for collaboratively generating the necessary reagents, mouse strains, antibodies, assays, protocols, technologies and validation assays that are beyond the scope of any single research effort. The scientific goals for the BCBC are to: * Use cues from pancreatic development to directly differentiate pancreatic beta cells and islets from stem / progenitor cells for use in cell-replacement therapies for diabetes, * Determine how to stimulate beta cell regeneration in the adult pancreas as a basis for improving beta cell mass in diabetic patients, * Determine how to reprogram progenitor / adult cells into pancreatic beta-cells both in-vitro and in-vivo as a mean for developing cell-replacement therapies for diabetes, and * Investigate the progression of human type-1 diabetes using patient-derived cells and tissues transplanted in humanized mouse models. Many of the BCBC investigator-initiated projects involve reagent-generating activities that will benefit the larger scientific community. The combination of programs and activities should accelerate the pace of major new discoveries and progress within the field of beta cell biology.

Proper citation: Beta Cell Biology Consortium (RRID:SCR_005136) Copy   

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http://www.adgenetics.org/

Consortium to conduct genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to identify genes associated with an increased risk of developing late-onset Alzheimer''''s disease (LOAD). The goal of the ADGC is to identify genetic variants associated with risk for AD. It plans to do this through the following collaborative goals: # Identify genes responsible for AD susceptibility # Identify AD sub-phenotype genes rate-of-progression plaque / tangle load / distribution biomarker variability # Generate a genetic data resource for the AD research community Data generated by ADGC is available at the following website: https://www.niagads.org/content/alzheimers-disease-genetics-consortium-adgc-collection

Proper citation: Alzheimers Disease Genetics Consortium (RRID:SCR_004004) Copy   

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https://www.sharelatex.com/

An collaborative tool which allows users to edit LaTeX documents in their browser. Multiple users can simultaneously access and edit the same LaTeX document and see the changes in real time. The latest version is available online, and the built in chat helps communicate with others while editing.

Proper citation: ShareLaTeX (RRID:SCR_002652) Copy   

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http://genes.mit.edu/GENSCAN.html

Web server for identification of complete gene structures in genomic DNA.Tool for predicting locations and exon-intron structures of genes in genomic sequences from variety of organisms. Used for prediction of complete gene structures in human genomic DNA.

Proper citation: GENSCAN (RRID:SCR_013362) Copy   

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http://www.labarchives.com

An ELN (electronic lab notebook) software application where researchers can record and organize their data in lieu of a paper notebook. Users can store and edit texts, PDFs, spreadsheets, images, sample collections, and other types of data. LabArchives automatically backs up data and data can be accessed anywhere. Users can choose to use the professional edition of LabArhives, the classroom edition, or to purchase an enterprise license.

Proper citation: LabArchives (RRID:SCR_013973) Copy   

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https://www.ctsacentral.org/

National consortium of medical research institutions working together to transform the local, regional, and national environment to increase the efficiency and speed of clinical and translational research across the country. Consortium members share a common vision to reduce the time it takes for laboratory discoveries to become treatments for patients, to engage communities in clinical research efforts and to train clinical and translational researchers. This consortium includes 60 medical research institutions located throughout the nation, linking them together to energize the discipline of clinical and translational science. The CTSA consortium has five Strategic Goals: * National Clinical and Translational Research Capability * The Training and Career Development of Clinical and Translational Scientists * Consortium-Wide Collaborations * The Health of our Communities and the Nation * T1 Translational Research

Proper citation: Clinical and Translational Science Awards Consortium (RRID:SCR_008339) Copy   

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http://www-sequence.stanford.edu/group/candida/

The Stanford Genome Technology Center began a whole genome shotgun sequencing of strain SC5314 of Candida albicans. After reaching its original goal of 1.5X mean coverage of the haploid genome (16Mb) in summer, 1998, Stanford was awarded a supplemental grant to continue sequencing up to a coverage of 10X, performing as much assembly of the sequence as possible, using recognizable genes as nucleation points. Candida albicans is one of the most commonly encountered human pathogens, causing a wide variety of infections ranging from mucosal infections in generally healthy persons to life-threatening systemic infections in individuals with impaired immunity. Oral and esophogeal Candida infections are frequently seen in AIDS patients. Few classes of drugs are effective against these fungal infections, and all of them have limitations with regard to efficacy and side-effects.

Proper citation: Sequencing of Candida Albicans (RRID:SCR_013437) Copy   

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http://med.stanford.edu/

Medical school of Stanford University and is located in Stanford, California. It traces its roots to the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, founded in San Francisco in 1858.

Proper citation: Stanford University School of Medicine; California; USA (RRID:SCR_011539) Copy   

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http://genomine.org/qvalue/

Features: * This software takes a list of p-values resulting from the simultaneous testing of many hypotheses and estimates their q-values. A point-and-click interface is now available! * The q-value of a test measures the proportion of false positives incurred (called the false discovery rate) when that particular test is called significant. * A short tutorial on q-values and false discovery rates is provided with the manual. * Various plots are automatically generated, allowing one to make sensible significance cut-offs. * Several mathematical results have recently been shown on the conservative accuracy of the estimated q-values from this software. * The software can be applied to problems in genomics, brain imaging, astrophysics, and data mining. This research was supported in part by a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship.

Proper citation: Q-Value Software (RRID:SCR_008538) Copy   

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http://lagan.stanford.edu

About the LAGAN Toolkit The LAGAN Tookit consists of four components: CHAOS CHAOS is a pairwise local aligner optimized for non-coding, and other poorly conserved regions of the genome. It uses both exact matching and degenerate seeds, and is able to find homology in the presence of gaps. LAGAN LAGAN is our highly parametrizable pairwise global alignment program. It takes local alignments generated by CHAOS as anchors, and limits the search area of the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm around these anchors; Multi-LAGAN Multi-LAGAN is a generalization of the pairwise algorithm to multiple sequence alignment. M-LAGAN performs progressive pairwise alignments, guided by a user-specified phylogenetic tree. Alignments are aligned to other alignments using the sum-of-pairs metric. Shuffle-LAGAN Shuffle-LAGAN is a novel glocal alignment algorithm that is able to find rearrangements (inversions, transpositions and some duplications) in a global alignment framework. It uses CHAOS local alignments to build a map of the rearrangements between the sequences, and LAGAN to align the regions of conserved synteny. The website uses scripts written by Alex Poliakov. The website was designed by Marina Sirota.

Proper citation: LAGAN (RRID:SCR_008558) Copy   

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https://www.coursera.org/

An open course site where you can take the World''s Best Courses, Online, For Free. We are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students. Through this, we hope to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. We want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in. Our Courses Classes offered on Coursera are designed to help you master the material. When you take one of our classes, you will watch lectures taught by world-class professors, learn at your own pace, test your knowledge, and reinforce concepts through interactive exercises. When you join one of our classes, you''ll also join a global community of thousands of students learning alongside you. We know that your life is busy, and that you have many commitments on your time. Thus, our courses are designed based on sound pedagogical foundations, to help you master new concepts quickly and effectively. Key ideas include mastery learning, to make sure that you have multiple attempts to demonstrate your new knowledge; using interactivity, to ensure student engagement and to assist long-term retention; and providing frequent feedback, so that you can monitor your own progress, and know when you''ve really mastered the material. We offer courses in a wide range of topics, spanning the Humanities, Medicine, Biology, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Business, Computer Science, and many others. Whether you''re looking to improve your resume, advance your career, or just learn more and expand your knowledge, we hope there will be multiple courses that you find interesting.

Proper citation: Coursera (RRID:SCR_008931) Copy   

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http://www.stanford.edu/group/wonglab/SpliceMap/

A de novo splice junction discovery and alignment tool.

Proper citation: SpliceMap (RRID:SCR_009650) Copy   

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https://simtk.org/home/simtkcore

SimTK Core is one of the two packages that together constitute SimTK, the biosimulation toolkit from the Simbios Center. The other major component of SimTK is OpenMM which is packaged separately. This SimTK Core project collects together all the binaries needed for the various SimTK Core subprojects. These include Simbody, Molmodel, Simmath (including Ipopt), Simmatrix, CPodes, SimTKcommon, and Lapack. See the individual projects for descriptions. SimTK brings together in a robust, convenient, open source form the collection of highly-specialized technologies necessary to building successful physics-based simulations of biological structures. These include: strict adherence to an important set of abstractions and guiding principles, robust, high-performance numerical methods, support for developing and sharing physics-based models, and careful software engineering. Accessible High Performance Computing We believe that a primary concern of simulation scientists is performance, that is, speed of computation. We seek to build valid, approximate models using classical physics in order to achieve reasonable run times for our computational studies, so that we can hope to learn something interesting before retirement. In the choice of SimTK technologies, we are focused on achieving the best possible performance on hardware that most researchers actually have. In today''s practice, that means commodity multiprocessors and small clusters. The difference in performance between the best methods and the do-it-yourself techniques most people use can be astoundingeasily an order of magnitude or more. The growing set of SimTK Core libraries seeks to provide the best implementation of the best-known methods for widely used computations such as: Linear algebra, numerical integration and Monte Carlo sampling, multibody (internal coordinate) dynamics, molecular force field evaluation, nonlinear root finding and optimization. All SimTK Core software is in the form of C++ APIs, is thread-safe, and quietly exploits multiple CPUs when they are present. The resulting pre-built binaries are available for download and immediate use. Audience: Biosimulation application programmers interested in including robust, high-performance physics-based simulation in their domain-specific applications.

Proper citation: SimTKCore (RRID:SCR_008268) Copy   

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https://www.encodeproject.org/

Consortium to build comprehensive parts list of functional elements in human genome. This includes elements that act at protein and RNA levels, and regulatory elements that control cells and circumstances in which gene is active. Data from 2012-present.

Proper citation: Encode (RRID:SCR_015482) Copy   

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http://bioportal.bioontology.org/annotator

A Web service that annotates textual metadata (e.g. journal abstract) with relevant ontology concepts. NCBO uses this Web service to annotate resources in the NCBO Resource Index. They also provide this Web service as a stand-alone service for users. This Web service can be accessed through BioPortal or used directly in your software. Currently, the annotation workflow is based on syntactic concept recognition (using concept names and synonyms) and on a set of semantic expansion algorithms that leverage the semantics in ontologies (e.g., is_a relations). Their service methodology leverages ontologies to create annotations of raw text and returns them using semantic web standards.

Proper citation: NCBO Annotator (RRID:SCR_005329) Copy   

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http://bmir.stanford.edu/

Mark Musen''s laboratory studies components for building knowledge-based systems, controlled terminologies and ontologies, and technology for the Semantic Web. For more than two decades, Musen''s group has worked to elucidate reusable building blocks of intelligent systems, and to develop scalable computational architectures for systems with significant applications in biomedicine. Informatics is the study of information: its structure, its communication, and its use. As society becomes increasingly information intensive, the need to understand, create, and apply new methods for modeling, managing, and acquiring information has never been greater especially in biomedicine. BMIR is home to world class scientists and trainees developing cutting-edge ways to acquire, represent, process, and manage knowledge and data related to health, health care, and the biomedical sciences. Our faculty, students, and staff are committed to ensuring the biomedical community is properly equipped for the information age, and believe our efforts will provide the structure for the burgeoning revolution of health care and the biomedical sciences.

Proper citation: Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (RRID:SCR_005698) Copy   

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